Hacker News on Saturday, 21 September 2024

Sanding UI(blog.jim-nielsen.com)

1216 points by roosgit 2 years ago | 371 comments

Jim Nielsen blog post on "sanding" UI: repeatedly clicking around and tweaking an interface during development until it feels finished.

Ultra high-resolution image of The Night Watch (2022)(rijksmuseum.nl)

543 points by lhoff 2 years ago | 139 comments

Rijksmuseum story from the Operation Night Watch series explaining how the team created an ultra high-resolution image of Rembrandt's The Night Watch.

Forget ChatGPT: why researchers now run small AIs on their laptops(nature.com)

535 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 302 comments

A Nature technology feature on why researchers are running small, openly available AI models locally on laptops, with guidance on getting started.

Show HN: Time Flies(time-flies.koenvangilst.nl)

367 points by vnglst 2 years ago | 39 comments

An interactive single-page JavaScript visualization depicting the passage of time as flies swarming inside a circle, labeled "time flies."

I Like Makefiles(switowski.com)

333 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 290 comments

A blog post by Sebastian Witowski explaining why he likes using Makefiles to automate common project tasks.

FCC wants all phones unlocked in sixty days, AT&T and T-Mobile aren't so keen(androidauthority.com)

311 points by miles 2 years ago | 199 comments

What happened to the Japanese PC platforms?(mistys-internet.website)

266 points by zdw 2 years ago | 186 comments

Omega-3 intake counteracts symptoms of anxiety and depression in mice(psypost.org)

233 points by geox 2 years ago | 114 comments

Scaling up linear programming with PDLP(research.google)

207 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 61 comments

Infineon's CO2 Sensor Monitors Indoor Air Quality(allaboutcircuits.com)

204 points by WaitWaitWha 2 years ago | 76 comments

Furnace – the biggest multi-system chiptune tracker ever made(github.com)

203 points by unleaded 2 years ago | 56 comments

Kamal Proxy – A minimal HTTP proxy for zero-downtime deployments(github.com)

202 points by norbert1990 2 years ago | 92 comments

Applied Mathematical Programming (1977)(web.mit.edu)

193 points by ibobev 2 years ago | 42 comments

What Is a Particle? (2020)(quantamagazine.org)

184 points by sblank 2 years ago | 163 comments

Twenty Years of FM Synthesis Inside Ableton Live(roberthenke.com)

166 points by gregsadetsky 2 years ago | 46 comments

The Collapse of Self-Worth in the Digital Age(thewalrus.ca)

161 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 122 comments

WP Engine is not WordPress(wordpress.org)

152 points by pentagrama 2 years ago | 101 comments

Porsche's idea for a six-stroke internal combustion engine(motor1.com)

148 points by tempestn 2 years ago | 291 comments

LHC experiments at CERN observe quantum entanglement at the highest energy yet(home.cern)

134 points by gmays 2 years ago | 115 comments

Analyzing the OpenAPI Tooling Ecosystem(modern-json-schema.com)

129 points by handrews 2 years ago | 40 comments

The Palletrone is a robotic hovercart for moving stuff anywhere(spectrum.ieee.org)

119 points by sohkamyung 2 years ago | 118 comments

Flow Computing aims to boost CPUs with ‘parallel processing units’(spectrum.ieee.org)

118 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 56 comments

The Visualization of Differential Forms (2021)(web.tecnico.ulisboa.pt)

108 points by mathgenius 2 years ago | 10 comments

Working in the office 5 days/week to build company culture is a myth: PwC report(msn.com)

103 points by ivewonyoung 2 years ago | 125 comments

Inside Annapurna Interactive's Mass Walkout(ign.com)

102 points by samfriedman 2 years ago | 58 comments

Social Initiation(socialcommunication.truman.edu)

98 points by yamrzou 2 years ago | 31 comments

Picking Glibc Versions at Runtime(blogsystem5.substack.com)

98 points by xlinux 2 years ago | 54 comments

Tetris shows promise in reducing PTSD symptoms(legalreader.com)

96 points by giuliomagnifico 2 years ago | 37 comments

Mount Unix system into Common Lisp image(github.com)

96 points by BoingBoomTschak 2 years ago | 20 comments

What 10k Hours of Coding Taught Me: Don't Ship Fast(sotergreco.com)

85 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 64 comments

Emacs Speaks Statistics(ess.r-project.org)

83 points by smartmic 2 years ago | 24 comments

Logging all C++ destructors, poor mans run-time tracing(raymii.org)

82 points by jandeboevrie 2 years ago | 35 comments

The Age of Software Artisans(jairojair.com)

79 points by jairojair 2 years ago | 75 comments

One Collatz Coincidence(sligocki.com)

75 points by 7373737373 2 years ago | 22 comments

A brief look at the new Kamal Proxy(nts.strzibny.name)

73 points by strzibny 2 years ago | 8 comments

GitHub-events-viewer a.k.a. "What did I do yesterday?"(github.com)

71 points by zbycz 2 years ago | 20 comments

The Gravo-Thermal Catastrophe(johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)

68 points by terryf 2 years ago | 20 comments

The Eleven Laws of Showrunning [pdf](okbjgm.weebly.com)

65 points by goose- 2 years ago | 15 comments

Concord had a dev culture of toxic positivity that halted any negative feedback(twitter.com)

64 points by xnhbx 2 years ago | 32 comments

In the US opioid-maker Purdue is bankrupt. Its global counterparts make millions(washingtonpost.com)

64 points by MilnerRoute 2 years ago | 50 comments

X capitulates to Brazil's Supreme Court(theverge.com)

63 points by anigbrowl 2 years ago | 69 comments

Antarctica's Ozone Hole Is Healing and Set to Recover by 2066(iflscience.com)

63 points by wjSgoWPm5bWAhXB 2 years ago | 3 comments

OpenSSH 9.9 Released(undeadly.org)

63 points by zdw 2 years ago | 10 comments

Life without Aadhaar(deccanherald.com)

62 points by walterbell 2 years ago | 60 comments

Kubed (Emacs-based Kubernetes interface) user manual, now with pretty images(eshelyaron.com)

62 points by oskardrums 2 years ago | 15 comments

Governor Newsom signs landmark bill to protect kids from social media addiction(gov.ca.gov)

57 points by Cyclone_ 2 years ago | 99 comments

Sshfs for Windows(github.com)

57 points by keepamovin 2 years ago | 22 comments

Open-Source CLI tool to inspect databases fast(github.com)

57 points by maverick98 2 years ago | 13 comments

Graph Coloring Methods(graphcoloringmethods.com)

56 points by silasdb 2 years ago | 11 comments

How to manage oncall as an engineering manager?

55 points by frugal10 2 years ago | 36 comments

Finish Your Projects(github.com)

48 points by xlinux 2 years ago | 21 comments

Mathematicians discover new class of shape seen throughout nature(nature.com)

48 points by signa11 2 years ago | 4 comments

Learning 101: The untaught basics [pdf](typeset.io)

44 points by JustinSkycak 2 years ago | 5 comments

4 exploits, 1 bug: exploiting CVE-2024-20017 4 different ways(blog.coffinsec.com)

44 points by thebeardisred 2 years ago | 4 comments

AI Companions Reduce Loneliness(arxiv.org)

44 points by Dowwie 2 years ago | 53 comments

Vaporizing plastics recycles them into nothing but gas(arstechnica.com)

41 points by bell-cot 2 years ago | 38 comments

Ruby on Rails continues to thrive(blogyet.com)

40 points by ksec 2 years ago | 27 comments

Remains of Egyptian army barracks and a bronze sword unearthed by archaeologists(cnn.com)

38 points by peutetre 2 years ago | 5 comments

Filtered for home robots, fast and slow(interconnected.org)

33 points by surprisetalk 2 years ago | 19 comments

Posts about Spartan Mosquito(colinpurrington.com)

32 points by gregsadetsky 2 years ago | 1 comments